Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991–2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions

Peng Nie, Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Lanlin Ding
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Lanlin Ding: Xjtu - Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract: Unprecedented economic growth has been experienced over the several decades worldwide, but such rapid economic growth wasn't accompanied by equally-substantial improvement in health, especially health inequalities between the rich and poor. This study examines the role of housing in income-related health inequalities (income-health gradient) in urban China. We here analyze 1991–2015 China Health and Nutrition Survey data to ask how housing affects income-related health inequalities in urban China. We find pro-poor inequalities in self-reported bad health but pro-rich inequalities in objective bad health (general overweight/obesity, central obesity and high blood pressure). Housing conditions serve to reduce the health gradient, especially for objective health. On the contrary, homeownership exacerbates the health gradient. Improving housing conditions thus appears to be an effective way of reducing the income-health gradient in urban China.

Keywords: Income-related health inequality; Housing conditions; Homeownership; Decomposition; Urban China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-01
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Published in Health & Place, 2022, 73, ⟨10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102743⟩

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Working Paper: Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991–2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions (2022)
Working Paper: Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991-2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions (2020)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102743

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